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If the governor signs the bill into law, alcohol sales would begin two hours earlier - at 4 a.m. - at St. Louis-Lambert International Airport.

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Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is urging the State Supreme Court to set execution dates for 19 death sentences. Koster says no legal barrier is barring the high court from moving forward with the executions. 

Koster says 10 cases of capital punishment have already been awaiting execution dates for over 3 years. He gave the court an additional 9 names today and says there is no legal ground for delaying punishment.

"If the Supreme Court does not act in these types of cases, then the people of Missouri have no way to complete the process of justice in these matters," Koster said.  "It's incumbent upon the Supreme Court to give us a response one way or another, but I don't think silence is an option."

It's the final day of the regular legislative session for the Missouri General Assembly.

Lawmakers have spent the past week clearing a backlog of bills that accumulated during a showdown over the state budget.

Last year at this time, the state House and Senate were deeply divided over tax credits, and a bill returning control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department back to the city of St. Louis had become a bargaining chip in the turf war.

This year, things have been more productive.

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The Missouri House and Senate have both passed a scaled-back version of a workers’ compensation reform bill. 

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• A stalemate in budget negotiations continues in the Missouri General Assembly.
• Missouri veteran goes on a hunger strike over a piece of legislation.
• A Kansas City man is arrested for robbing a Columbia bank.
  

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